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- 05-18-2004, 06:28 AM #1Røbert MGuest
When and if Cingular acquires AT&T Wireless, they will soon thereafter
lose the right to use the AT&T name.
AT&T wants to again have its own Wireless brand (so as to have a full
suite of services to sell) (as does MCI).
To that end like AT&T has reached a deal to sell Wireless services under
its own brand name, but use the SprintPCS network, like Virgin Mobile
does.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...9&e=2&u=/nm/20
040518/bs_nm/telecoms_sprint_att_dc
(cut and paste the link if Outlook Express "breaks it")
============================
Meanwhile that leaves MCI. Three possibilities:
1. MCI will remain wioth no cellular business (unlikely)
2. MCI will resell Sprint's network like AT&T is now signed on to do.
3. Sprint will buy MCI, now valued at less than $5 Billion after
emerging from bankruptcy. Although they may now have to compete with
Telmex.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040513/telecoms_mci_1.html
Sure a sign of how Bushnomics has changed things if Mexican concerns are
now getting ready to buy American Industries?
Have you got your Bush $2 gasolene yet?
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- 05-18-2004, 07:01 AM #2Bob SmithGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
"Røbert M" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> When and if Cingular acquires AT&T Wireless, they will soon thereafter
> lose the right to use the AT&T name.
>
> AT&T wants to again have its own Wireless brand (so as to have a full
> suite of services to sell) (as does MCI).
>
> To that end like AT&T has reached a deal to sell Wireless services under
> its own brand name, but use the SprintPCS network, like Virgin Mobile
> does.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...9&e=2&u=/nm/20
> 040518/bs_nm/telecoms_sprint_att_dc
>
> (cut and paste the link if Outlook Express "breaks it")
I was going to post the same info, but put in a link EVERYONE can click on,
instead of having to do a copy & paste. Why don't you use tinyurl.com
Phillipe? For those that don't want to copy & paste, here's another link to
the Reuters article - http://tinyurl.com/2uc2f
Bob
- 05-18-2004, 07:21 AM #3Nebby00007Guest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
For those that don't want to copy & paste, here's another link to the Reuters
article - <A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/2uc2f">http://tinyurl.com/2uc2f</A>
Thank you for that.
SprintPCS apparently makes good money from its deal with Virgin Wireless, and
likely stands to be helped a lot by this 5 year deal with AT&T, which would
then be hard for AT&T to discontinue, and Sprint PCS could be in the drivers
seat in negotiating a renewal. The Network is built for Sprint's use, and
incremental use is just wonderful for the bean counters. Hopefully not too many
cases of the networks being overused (like happened in Chicago earlier on for
Sprint PCS) will occur. Its very frustrating for users to not be able to place
a call
when they feel the need (i.e. a heavy rainfall at 5 PM).
- 05-18-2004, 07:47 AM #4Scott Nelson - Wash DCGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
I wonder if Mobile to Mobile calls will be treated as such to AT&T v2?
Are SprintPCS calls to Virgin Mobile calls treated as MtoM?
Or are they going to get their own block of numbers or do they already have
that now?
Scotty
"Bob Smith" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "Røbert M" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
> > When and if Cingular acquires AT&T Wireless, they will soon thereafter
> > lose the right to use the AT&T name.
> >
> > AT&T wants to again have its own Wireless brand (so as to have a full
> > suite of services to sell) (as does MCI).
> >
> > To that end like AT&T has reached a deal to sell Wireless services under
> > its own brand name, but use the SprintPCS network, like Virgin Mobile
> > does.
> >
> >
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...9&e=2&u=/nm/20
> > 040518/bs_nm/telecoms_sprint_att_dc
> >
> > (cut and paste the link if Outlook Express "breaks it")
>
> I was going to post the same info, but put in a link EVERYONE can click
on,
> instead of having to do a copy & paste. Why don't you use tinyurl.com
> Phillipe? For those that don't want to copy & paste, here's another link
to
> the Reuters article - http://tinyurl.com/2uc2f
>
> Bob
>
>
- 05-18-2004, 07:50 AM #5Røbert MGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
In article <[email protected]>,
"Scott Nelson - Wash DC" <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wonder if Mobile to Mobile calls will be treated as such to AT&T v2?
> Are SprintPCS calls to Virgin Mobile calls treated as MtoM?
Not likely and no.
- 05-18-2004, 08:09 AM #6MikeGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
Scott Nelson - Wash DC wrote:
> I wonder if Mobile to Mobile calls will be treated as such to AT&T v2?
> Are SprintPCS calls to Virgin Mobile calls treated as MtoM?
>
> Or are they going to get their own block of numbers or do they already have
> that now?
>
> Scotty
You know, I wondered the same thing. According to my bill, Virgin Mobile
calls don't count as mobile to mobile for Sprint customers.
-mike
- 05-18-2004, 09:18 AM #7Bob SmithGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
"Nebby00007" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> For those that don't want to copy & paste, here's another link to the
Reuters
> article - <A HREF="http://tinyurl.com/2uc2f">http://tinyurl.com/2uc2f</A>
>
> Thank you for that.
You have a problem with your newsreader rendering links. Why is the URL
showing up twice in the same link? It makes the link useless.
Bob
- 05-18-2004, 09:39 AM #8John RichardsGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
"Røbert M" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> When and if Cingular acquires AT&T Wireless, they will soon thereafter
> lose the right to use the AT&T name.
>
> AT&T wants to again have its own Wireless brand (so as to have a full
> suite of services to sell) (as does MCI).
>
> To that end like AT&T has reached a deal to sell Wireless services under
> its own brand name, but use the SprintPCS network, like Virgin Mobile
> does.
>
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...9&e=2&u=/nm/20
> 040518/bs_nm/telecoms_sprint_att_dc
>
>
> (cut and paste the link if Outlook Express "breaks it")
Outlook Express didn't break it. Your news client "MT-NewsWatcher/3.4 (PPC Mac OS X)"
broke it by inserting a carriage return character after the "/20".
--
John Richards
- 05-18-2004, 10:51 AM #9Garner MillerGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
In article <[email protected]>, Bob Smith
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Why don't you use tinyurl.com Phillipe?
I don't know about him, but a lot of us don't click on URLs that lead
us down blind alleys. You have NO idea where a tinyurl link will take
you, be it a porn site or whatnot. At least makeashorterlink.com gives
you a preview of where you'll be going.
However, had he put the long URL in angle-brackets <like this>, any
non-braindead usenet reader would have made the whole thing clickable
anyway. That'd be the simplest option for everyone.
--
Garner R. Miller
Manchester, CT =USA=
- 05-18-2004, 11:06 AM #10Røbert MGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
In article <180520041251571308%[email protected]>,
Garner Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> However, had he put the long URL in angle-brackets <like this>, any
> non-braindead usenet reader would have made the whole thing clickable
> anyway. That'd be the simplest option for everyone.
Outlook Express still fails on those.
- 05-18-2004, 11:14 AM #11Garner MillerGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
In article <[email protected]>,
Røbert M <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <180520041251571308%[email protected]>,
> Garner Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > However, had he put the long URL in angle-brackets <like this>, any
> > non-braindead usenet reader would have made the whole thing clickable
> > anyway. That'd be the simplest option for everyone.
>
> Outlook Express still fails on those.
As I said, any NON-braindead newsreader. OE doesn't qualify, I'm
afraid.
--
Garner R. Miller
Manchester, CT =USA=
- 05-18-2004, 12:08 PM #12Steven J SobolGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
In alt.cellular R?bert M <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <180520041251571308%[email protected]>,
> Garner Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> However, had he put the long URL in angle-brackets <like this>, any
>> non-braindead usenet reader would have made the whole thing clickable
>> anyway. That'd be the simplest option for everyone.
>
> Outlook Express still fails on those.
Outhouse Distress is a bug-ridden piece of junk.
He said "non-braindead."
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- 05-18-2004, 12:20 PM #13John RichardsGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
"Røbert M" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]...
> In article <180520041251571308%[email protected]>,
> Garner Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> However, had he put the long URL in angle-brackets <like this>, any
>> non-braindead usenet reader would have made the whole thing clickable
>> anyway. That'd be the simplest option for everyone.
>
> Outlook Express still fails on those.
I have no problem clicking on long URLs, unless they are irretrievably broken
by the originator.
John Richards (long-time OE user)
- 05-18-2004, 12:37 PM #14Michael ArendsGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
"Røbert M" wrote:
>
> Have you got your Bush $2 gasolene yet?
$2 Gasoline? How about 2.78 here for premium..
THANK YOU GWB...
- 05-18-2004, 01:08 PM #15Røbert MGuest
Re: AT&T Wireless to be reborn
In article <180520041314564033%[email protected]>,
Garner Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> In article <[email protected]>,
> Røbert M <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > In article <180520041251571308%[email protected]>,
> > Garner Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > However, had he put the long URL in angle-brackets <like this>, any
> > > non-braindead usenet reader would have made the whole thing clickable
> > > anyway. That'd be the simplest option for everyone.
> >
> > Outlook Express still fails on those.
>
> As I said, any NON-braindead newsreader. OE doesn't qualify, I'm
> afraid.
We have posters here who get upset if anyone suggests they use anything
else.
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